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Njabulo James:This is the host of the NJ podcast.
Njabulo James:This is wisdom words, Wednesdays.
Njabulo James:This is part of the everyday series where we share insights and inspiration
Njabulo James:based off a wisdom principle that will add value to your life.
Njabulo James:The better decisions you make, the better, the quality your life will be.
Njabulo James:That is why we need wisdom.
Njabulo James:Now more than.
Njabulo James:And this episode today, we're going to talk about apply wisdom to your
Njabulo James:thinking, apply wisdom to your thinking.
Njabulo James:Human beings have a distinct advantage over the rest of the animal kingdom.
Njabulo James:Think about it for a moment.
Njabulo James:We are not the first.
Njabulo James:We are not the strongest and sometimes we're not the most organized, but how is
Njabulo James:it that we are able to rise to the upper echelons, where we're able to dominate.
Njabulo James:And in some cases, subdue and survive amongst animals that are
Njabulo James:much stronger and faster than we are.
Njabulo James:The answer lies.
Njabulo James:The capacity of our brains and the use of our minds and for us to able
Njabulo James:to apply wisdom to how we think.
Njabulo James:Our brain is about 25% of our body mass in comparison to chimpanzees and apes.
Njabulo James:It is only 8%.
Njabulo James:And this organ that we call our brain consumes a lot of energy.
Njabulo James:That is why we were able to communicate and put together
Njabulo James:complex words and sentences.
Njabulo James:Yeah.
Njabulo James:Diaz and communicate to each other.
Njabulo James:Who what, when, where, why and how that allowed us to build empires and to
Njabulo James:build kingdoms and to build businesses and to build families, we were able
Njabulo James:to apply wisdom to our thinking.
Njabulo James:That is a distinct advantage that we have today.
Njabulo James:As part of the human race, there are some people who make sure that they
Njabulo James:enhance their brain capacity, the capacity to make difficult and complex
Njabulo James:decisions, the capacity to deal with them, emotionally tense situations.
Njabulo James:And these are the people that we now know as high performers, why they
Njabulo James:are able to apply wisdom to your.
Njabulo James:The best bankers, the best traders, the best business people apply wisdom to their
Njabulo James:thinking when they are conducting a deals.
Njabulo James:That is the difference between the haves and the have-nots because they they're
Njabulo James:able to use the resources of their minds.
Njabulo James:As there is in the societies today, a sickness, some people call it a sickness.
Njabulo James:The, where people fall into the trap of not wanting to think if
Njabulo James:I've ever seen people who fall into the trap of not wanting to do.
Njabulo James:They'll go off of any piece of information that is fed to them.
Njabulo James:They won't critically analyze per tap air, break it apart and understand different
Njabulo James:perspectives and other people's points of views and be siloed in their thinking.
Njabulo James:And they don't want to think you will tell them anything, they'll run with it.
Njabulo James:And they will accept that as fact.
Njabulo James:And that is very dangerous because it will stop us from reaching the
Njabulo James:highest potential of thinking.
Njabulo James:And that is a travesty because we were given this amazing tool called
Njabulo James:the mind and the brain for us to apply with them, to our thinking.
Njabulo James:Don't fall into the trap of not wanting to think don't be a person.
Njabulo James:Who doesn't have an argument.
Njabulo James:Don't be the person that is always emotive when they are, they have been challenged.
Njabulo James:Don't be the person that raises their voice and does not raise the level of
Njabulo James:their internet and their arguments.
Njabulo James:I saw a post once an Instagram post.
Njabulo James:Once that said, when you get into an argument, don't raise
Njabulo James:the level of your voice.
Njabulo James:Raise the level of.
Njabulo James:Of your intellect raise the level of your argument and I'll, we'll
Njabulo James:share some ways that you can apply wisdom to your thinking.
Njabulo James:So you can avoid being parts of people who fall into the trap of
Njabulo James:not wanting to think one way is to protect yourself and your time.
Njabulo James:There is a saying that you should give with discussing.
Njabulo James:Give with discretion.
Njabulo James:Time is a very important, valuable and irredeemable resource.
Njabulo James:At times.
Njabulo James:If somebody waste your time for the first time, don't allow
Njabulo James:them to do so for a second.
Njabulo James:You need to learn, to give with discretion because human beings as canning as you
Njabulo James:are, and as clever as we are, we are also shoot in the sense that we will waste your
Njabulo James:time and carry on with our lives without you as if we didn't waste your time.
Njabulo James:And you need to apply wisdom to your thinking, to protect your time to say,
Njabulo James:I'm only going to give with discretion because you will never be able to get.
Njabulo James:Uh, two hours backwards that someone was, have you ever been, uh, had a two
Njabulo James:hour meeting or two hour conversation?
Njabulo James:And at the end of that conversation, you ask yourself 20, what did I achieve here?
Njabulo James:Right.
Njabulo James:You and that's because somebody wasted your time.
Njabulo James:And one of the biggest pains that you will ever go through in
Njabulo James:life is to crave a conversation with someone that is no longer.
Njabulo James:One of the biggest pains you'll ever go through is to crave a conversation
Njabulo James:with somebody that is no longer here.
Njabulo James:It could be your mother or your father or someone.
Njabulo James:You looked up to a sibling, a best friend, and they are no longer alive.
Njabulo James:And that pain is amplified because, you know, That you wasted the precious
Njabulo James:time that you had with them, with somebody else who didn't matter as
Njabulo James:much or doing something else that didn't matter as much as that person.
Njabulo James:Now, I encourage you to learn, to give with discretion.
Njabulo James:If somebody says to you, Hey, I would like X amount of your time.
Njabulo James:Let's go to this place.
Njabulo James:I started questioning, why are we going there?
Njabulo James:What are we going to be doing?
Njabulo James:Who is going to be there?
Njabulo James:It's not that I don't trust you.
Njabulo James:I just want to know.
Njabulo James:Is it going to be worthy of my time?
Njabulo James:And if it's not moving you towards a worthy, ideal, or
Njabulo James:not part of a well-deserved break, say to them, I apologize.
Njabulo James:I'm not going to do go there.
Njabulo James:And more importantly, you need to give with discretion, especially to
Njabulo James:yourself because the greatest enemy that you'll ever fight is the enemy inside.
Njabulo James:That is the enemy.
Njabulo James:That is you.
Njabulo James:If there was no devil, I would be.
Njabulo James:Of myself, learn to give with discretion, apply wisdom to your
Njabulo James:thinking, by giving with discretion.
Njabulo James:Another way that you can apply wisdom to your thinking when somebody presents
Njabulo James:information to you that you're not sure of, even if you're sure of it,
Njabulo James:ask the question, how do you know.
Njabulo James:How do you know that and watch them squirm for awhile if they don't
Njabulo James:know what they're talking about?
Njabulo James:How do you know that?
Njabulo James:Remember we said that people can fall into the trap of not wanting to think.
Njabulo James:So they may be presenting information to you.
Njabulo James:That's not a verified, they haven't thought through and they want
Njabulo James:you to accept it as gospel, ask the question, how do you know.
Njabulo James:Somebody comes to you with a piece of gossip or they say that
Njabulo James:person, doesn't like, you ask the question, how do you know that?
Njabulo James:Where's it fats where's information.
Njabulo James:Where's the data.
Njabulo James:Where's the screenshots.
Njabulo James:Where's the evidence.
Njabulo James:How do you know that if they say that that companies are with while
Njabulo James:investing in, ask the question, wow.
Njabulo James:Do you know that.
Njabulo James:If somebody says to you, appeal gives you a piece of information
Njabulo James:to say that person's a bad person, or you shouldn't do that.
Njabulo James:Ask the question.
Njabulo James:How do you know that?
Njabulo James:And it has nothing to do.
Njabulo James:Whether you trust the person's integrity or nuts, there are times that we can
Njabulo James:miss certain pieces of information and we ask how do you know that it
Njabulo James:will force other person to present their well thought through arguing.
Njabulo James:And if they don't have an augment, then they must go back
Njabulo James:and verify the information.
Njabulo James:I was listening to a podcast where they were talking about
Njabulo James:the Kennedy family, John F.
Njabulo James:Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
Njabulo James:Um, there was a culture that around the dinner table,
Njabulo James:they would sit down and talk.
Njabulo James:There was sit down and debate.
Njabulo James:I'm not sure, a hundred percent sure if it's the Kennedy family or
Njabulo James:it's Kenneth, uh, John F Kennedy's, uh, media family, or if it was his
Njabulo James:children, but part of the Kennedy family, what they would do every single.
Njabulo James:Dinner time, they would make it a point to debate each other.
Njabulo James:Why is cocaine good or bad?
Njabulo James:Why is gun control good or bad?
Njabulo James:And that forces them to think through their arguments so that they have
Njabulo James:a good answer to the question.
Njabulo James:How do you.
Njabulo James:As to go, nothing to do.
Njabulo James:If you trust a person, if someone says to you, you get here's the facts
Njabulo James:and you say, how do you know that?
Njabulo James:And they'll be like, what?
Njabulo James:But do you not?
Njabulo James:Trust me?
Njabulo James:It's not about not trusting you.
Njabulo James:I just want to make sure that what I run with is factually substantiated.
Njabulo James:All right.
Njabulo James:So apply wisdom to your thinking about asking how do you know that
Njabulo James:another way that you can apply wisdom to thinking is to don't rush.
Njabulo James:Take the time to.
Njabulo James:And process.
Njabulo James:There may be times we need to make quick and fast decisions.
Njabulo James:I get that in situations where you don't have to make split second
Njabulo James:decisions, take the time to breathe.
Njabulo James:Let it simmer so that you can make the right decision, because think about it.
Njabulo James:If you make a hasty decision, you will lose money on a trade.
Njabulo James:You will lose money on the stock.
Njabulo James:You will make their own business decision and a year from now,
Njabulo James:you're no longer in business.
Njabulo James:You may swerve off the road and you may get into a car accident.
Njabulo James:You may say something, then you, next thing you're out of a job
Njabulo James:or you out of a relationship.
Njabulo James:Take.
Njabulo James:I think and process.
Njabulo James:And if you're a person that likes thinking, you've got many personality
Njabulo James:types, if you are a thinker and don't let anyone pressurize you and say, I need to
Njabulo James:take time to think there was a finance coach who said that before you make a
Njabulo James:purchase, ask yourself, do I need this?
Njabulo James:And take 24 hours to think through whether you need it or not.
Njabulo James:And if you need it in 24 hours from now, then that's fine.
Njabulo James:Take time to think and process apply wisdom to your thinking by
Njabulo James:not rushing, take time to think and process and make better decisions.
Njabulo James:Another way that you can apply wisdom to your thinking is to
Njabulo James:follow the words of Deming.
Njabulo James:He said in God, we trust all others.
Njabulo James:Bring data in God.
Njabulo James:We trust all others must bring.
Njabulo James:What does that mean?
Njabulo James:It means that outside of God, the higher power, any other information and words
Njabulo James:and facts and school of thought that come from anybody else, your immediate family,
Njabulo James:extended family, good friends or not.
Njabulo James:So good friends.
Njabulo James:We're calling.
Njabulo James:They must bring data to you because without data and information and verified
Njabulo James:fats, you are nothing more than a person with an unfair fight opinion.
Njabulo James:And there's nothing worse than a person with an iron very fight opinion.
Njabulo James:Why?
Njabulo James:Because remember we said at the beginning of the show, There is a culture that
Njabulo James:exists where people don't want to think.
Njabulo James:And that is called borrowed intellect.
Njabulo James:I heard this from a colleague.
Njabulo James:I got, it said people don't want to think they will be.
Njabulo James:They strive off of, they thrive off of borrowed.
Njabulo James:I said, what is that?
Njabulo James:There can be people who are more knowledgeable while learn it
Njabulo James:well versed in a particular area.
Njabulo James:And because we made our points of thing for ourselves, because not
Njabulo James:because we don't want to, or not, because we don't want to think for
Njabulo James:ourselves, but we are too lazy to think.
Njabulo James:And then you always ran to the same person over and over again, using their.
Njabulo James:You learn to think for yourself.
Njabulo James:And also when people come to you and say, I read this at this place, or I
Njabulo James:heard this opinion from this person say to them in God, we trust all others
Njabulo James:bring data because without data and verify facts and information, you're
Njabulo James:nothing more than a person with an opinion and opinion is just that.
Njabulo James:And the.
Njabulo James:I hope that you enjoy this episode of wisdom words, Wednesdays, where we talked
Njabulo James:about apply wisdom to your thinking.
Njabulo James:Let's go through what we talked about.
Njabulo James:People can fall into the trap of not wanting to think.
Njabulo James:And this is a travesty given the mind that we were given that allows us to
Njabulo James:be the human race that we are today.
Njabulo James:And then one let's apply.
Njabulo James:Wasn't your thinking is to give with discretion.
Njabulo James:Don't do things or waste your time, unless it is a part of your worthy ideal.
Njabulo James:And when somebody.
Njabulo James:Presents information to you ask them, how do you know that?
Njabulo James:And then you can see if they're thought through that.
Njabulo James:If arguments don't rush, take time to think and process, and remember
Njabulo James:the words of Deming where wise words in God, we trust all others.
Njabulo James:Bring it.
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